Change Management Disasters at Regional Management Level

One of the most important places to ensure that change management situations go correctly will be at the regional management level and with those managers who are overseeing the corporate outlets for a large area. Often when the regional manager leaves, moves to another position or trades with another regional manager we find that all the information that they know about goes with them.

Change Management and the Affects on Productivity

One of the biggest concerns and the reason why so many consultants and MBA business schools study change management is because it directly affects the productivity of the company and the efficiency and the use of the organizational capital, which has been already established at the management levels.

Change Management at the Highest Levels; The HP Shake-up

What happens when a board of director of a company with half a million employees starts leaking company secrets and strategy to the press? Well, in the case of HP, they decided to oust the CEO, when the board of director was caught thru looking at his phone records. The board of director who gave out the information costs the shareholders millions of dollars in shareholders equity due to negative press.

Looking Back

There is a marked difference between the quick-service companies that are celebrating an anniversary this year and the foodservice products that are doing the same. To wit, little has changed about the Tater Tot since it first appeared in grocery stores 50 years ago. Quite a bit has changed at Burger King during that same time span.

An Educational Process for Change and Improvement Efforts

Once a management team has established a change and improvement plan, there are many ways to help everyone in the organization understand what's going on and why. These include one-on-one discussions, group presentations, workshops or seminars, videos, printed materials, and the like.

The Future of Change Management

The future of change management is when robotic artificial intelligent androids will be the ones making decisions rather than people and humans will have to accept this without sabotaging the equipment or computer systems. This will be when robots vs. machines compete for the top executive positions. It will be funny too because the artificial intelligent business decision systems

Cholesterol is Like the Calibre of Staff

A good manager must learn to get rid of dysfunctional staff. In a company, the dysfunctional staff can influence the good ones. Thus, the analogy with cholesterol.

What Are You Waiting For?

How many times have you had a thought about something but then not acted on it? It might be a concern you had or a great new approach that inspired you. Take a moment or two to list a few for yourself….

Change - It Is Like Riding a Bicycle

Successful companies know change is a necessity. The challenge is continually encouraging, creating, and implementing worthwhile changes to make a difference for the business. Helping your team learn to accept and even embrace change is similar to learning to ride a bicycle.

Manage the Transition to Your New Job

Consultants are often involved in a change in job assignments. Some jobs take more time then others. Some consultant have different assignments at the same time, but a new assignment always brings a introduction period with it. Not only consultants, but everyone involved in a job switch will be faced with such a transition. How should you handle such a period?

Change, Growth And The Life Cycle (2)

Each stage has a development task and a person should resolve this task before he can move forward to a next phase - Change is like that, you need to deal with the challenges of one stage, before you can more wholeheartedly to the next one

People Tend To Do What You Inspect Rather Than What You Expect

Expectation sets the height of the bar, but it is regular inspection that resets the height of the bar so as to ensure it is achievable. The common notion is that what gets measured, gets performed. This is why it is useful to have key performance indicators.

Managing Things and Leading People

High-performing teams and organizations balance the discipline of systems, processes, and technology management on a base of effective people leadership. Here are some key of the key distinctions between the two: